Improved clothes-line holder



` To all whom it indy concern:

`.msnen Davis, `or nnnnrsenno, PENNSYLVANIA.

. Letters Patent No. 103,155,11ted May 17, 1870;

IMPR'QVBD enormes-LINE HOLDER.

The Schedule 'referred to in these Letter@ Patent and part of the same Beit known that I, JOSEPH Davis, oi Harrisburg, in the county of' Dauphin, and Stat-e of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Clothes-Line Holders; and I do herebyl declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description 'of the construction and operationof the same, reference being had to the annexed drawing making a part of this specification, 'and to the lett-ers and figures of ref`- erenoe marked thereon.`

`Figure l of the drawing is aside view of my fast-ening device. l l

Figure 2 is a sectional view of the same Figure 3 is arie-w of `my invention in perspeeti\re.

My invention relates' to clothes-driers, and consists in a novel arrangement of devices intended to serve as valnalle aids in the laundry occupation referred to.

"A of the drawing represents a hed-plate; B, an upright standard; and

0,11 swinging-gate pivoted to the bed-plate nt (I, as

l shown on fig.

Ou the inner side of the standard 13,1 alix a bent rod or staple, r, in the manner represented on fig. l, and arrange thereon the-.sliding staple y, `as shown.

\ Therletter s represents a dog, pivoted near its centerto the staple y. `The upper end of this dog is 'formedin the shape of a fork, while its lower end `is holiowed out on thesideonext the rod o, so as to oon- `i'orxn tothe-iishape of saidrofd, [have marked the forked ripper end 'of tliisdog w, on the drawing, and its lower hollowedor grooved side n.

The Clothes-line is made fast to the upright standard of the gate, from lwhence it is passed downward through the forks u', the staple y, and the groove n.

The operator seizes the ond of the clothesline that extendsbelow the groove n, and tightens it at will, or releases it therefrom, as the case may require.

This staple y, and the groove n, serve asv means for adj nsting the clothesline at anydesired altitude, upon the bent rod r.

lhe oliee ofthe swinging gate is to provide means by which the clothes upon the line may be s wnnginto bed-plate A, standard B, gate C, staples n and y, and

dog s, when arranged substantially as specitied.

' In testimony that I claim the above, I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH DAVIS.

Witnesses:

W. H. H. LIEG, M. S. BOWERS. 

